Ashok Swain, Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, has rightfully stated, “Gaza is not just a humanitarian catastrophe but a collapse of the international system". I share this because it captures how many of us feel these days. We cannot look away.

Obsessed: refugeworldwide.com ✊✨

Interesting podcast with @christinecheng.bsky.social about #global_conflict, post-war peacebuilding, #identity and transitions to peace in today's world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL5q...

Interesting data by @migobs.bsky.social about labour markets in the UK and migrants. migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...

When speaking to someone with anti-immigrant ideas, start with these three points and back them up with facts. #immigration_issues #Hein_de_Haas

New to BlueSky and interested in #citizenship? Here’s a Starter Pack with some folks working in the field of citizenship studies, or on related issues #migcitsky There’s still space to add people to the list! go.bsky.app/5vLDGon

For those of you who are used to work/study with music. I highly recommend Endel music platform! 🎶 endel.io/player

Is there anyone else in the library who knows exactly which plug works and which does not? Bring it on! #student_life >> courtesy of spending long days at the library

When you're about to order from Pret, Nero, or Costa, take a moment to look around. If there's a local or independent coffee shop nearby, go there instead. #Support_local. Didn't mention Starbucks >> general consensus is no one goes there anyway. #boycott_starbucks

The index of “How to be right” by James O’Brien says it all.

The beautiful Harsha Walia.

This should be interesting! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-...

Three coffees a day is too many, and two is not enough. 😒

The government decides on your family ties based on a bone X-ray; it is intrusive, absurd and dehumanising. The same government decides what counts as your kinship. This just breaks my heart. #borders #biometrics #immigration

Brilliant Farnoosh Hashemian (@phoenixnoosh.bsky.social) and Dzikamai Bere talking about the effects of US aid freeze. Catastrophe or opportunity? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

An interesting read on #aid_dependency amid the recent US aid cut. #Aid_cut

Spending five hours at ICA watching 'The Memory of Justice' documentary over the weekend made my weekend well-spent. Such an amazing piece of work.

My March reading list: (correction: one of the reading lists) www.academia.edu/12192676/For... 📚

Social Skills Training by Solmaz Sharif.

Podcast to listen to: www.bmj.com/podcasts/dec...

This is this documentary's first cinematic release in the UK. Don't miss it.

Audre Lorde was born on this day in 1934, in Harlem, New York. In her own words, she was a "Black, Feminist, Lesbian, mother, warrior, woman, lover, poet doing my work".

An important read and good update to @pklinkne.bsky.social and Rogers Smith's 2000 book, The Unsteady March (which I cite a lot!) theconversation.com/60-years-of-...

Another fruitful listen with Noaman Ali and Safa S. #decolonisation #decolonising_development

Another day started in the library. Experiencing 57% anxiety, thanks to deadlines on my calendar. Solidarity to you all.

Reading the comments on this post on BBC is just so heartbreaking 💔

This should be interesting! @npr.org 📻 #birthright #citizenship #WongKimArk

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

"Borders are where the known meets the unknown, and in that meeting, we define who we are." – Gloria Anzaldúa (Borderlands/La Frontera)

These mornings.

With the U.S. aid freeze and 'stop work' orders in effect, it's the perfect time to revisit Dr. Olivia Rutazibwa’s insights. www.youtube.com/live/M4POAUt...

Dark Green: Climate Finance Investigations - a new #free online training programme for European journalists. 8x2hrs sessions over 4 weeks 15 journalists to be selected 5 x €1,000 grants for the best stories Apply now: tcij.org/initiative/d... Deadline: 2 Feb Funded by @journalismfund.bsky.social

1,015 unmarked migrant graves. 65 cemeteries. 8 countries. No official records. A team of investigative journalists uncovered Europe's systemic neglect of missing migrants—where even in death, they remain invisible. #Migration #Borders

#EastWestStreet was by far one of the best books I've ever read. Highly recommended. 📚

If you are interested in human movement, identity, and mobility, this is an amazing dataset on movies about #migration gathered by @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/aiSfx/47/

Recent publication from EUAA on #Iran . euaa.europa.eu/sites/defaul...

An amazing exhibition by Four Corners gallery. www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk/whats-on/now...

If you are interested in the modern history of Iranian Kurdistan, from the 1979 Revolution to the rise of civil society and the women's movement. www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...

My heart goes to civilians in #Congo - almost 3 million people displaced without having access to basic needs. www.rescue.org/uk/press-rel...

I should have been preparing for class, but instead spent all day reading The Life Inside by Andy West. I loved it! Anyone interested in prisons should definitely read it. Also took my mind off other global events.

Anyone interested? oneworldtogether.org.uk/links-learni...

1/1 "Democracy is not primarily about the realisation of consensus. Any attempt to construct political agreement within a political community is a tension-filled project that involves exclusions and power struggles.

What it means to exist in the nowhere - Read Solmaz Sharif's poems. #Customs #Solmaz_Sharif www.graywolfpress.org/books/customs

Amazing work by Yukinori Yanagi. An artist who brought "border crossings" to life in their art.

Podcast suggestion on #borders from @big-lab.bsky.social . podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

If you are interested in Iran's new wave cinema, check out these movies in February: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...